He Meant Quotes

123 He Meant quotes by 111 unique authors

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of… — Howard Zinn
Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it. — Frank Zappa
Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in… — Ayn Rand
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the… — Zane Grey
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not… — Kenny Smith
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just know on the inside that you won't quit. That's it. There is nothing else. Shakespeare said, 'To thine own self be true'. I don't… — Forrest Griffin
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so… — A.C. Grayling
When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families. — Susan Cheever
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm. — William Shakespeare
Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this… — J I Packer
My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our… — Robert Genn
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If… — Stephen Leacock
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. — Al Franken
I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told… — Will Ferrell
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and… — Lupe Fiasco
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom… — Eddie Van Halen
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner
My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin… — Mike Wallace
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. — Steven Wright
[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked… — John Steinbeck

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